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H. H. FULTON.

LATHING.

Patented Feb. 16, 1886.

A 1 /Zl W UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARMON H. FULTON, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

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EPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 336,517, dated February16, 1886.

Application filed January 7, 1856. Serial No. 1818 73. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HARMON H. FULTON, of the city of Indianapolis,county of Marion, and State of Indiana, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Lat-hing, of which the following is aspecification.

My said invention relates to that class of wooden laths which are madeby forming beveled edges on thick portions, which run down to thinportions; and it consists in forming such thick and thin portions ofseparate and independent pieces of board, rather than in grooving outthick pieces of board to form the bevel and depression, and thus wastingthe lumber, as has been heretofore done.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which are made a part hereof,and on which similar letters of reference indicate similar parts, Figurel is a transverse section of a series of boards formed in accordancewith my invention, and Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the thinportions or boards of a slightly different construction.

In said drawings, the portions marked A represent the thick portions orboards;-B, the thin portions or boards, and C the studding, to which thelathing is secured. The thick portions A are simply ordinary pieces ofboard with the edges beveled one reversely to the other. The thinportionsB are similar to the thick portions, except in thickness; ortheymay, instead, be just simply thin portions of board with the ordinarystraight edges, as shown in Fig. 2.

As will be readily understood, this system of lathing is a great savingin lumber over that wherein the whole lath is made of thick lumber, asin such cases a considerable portion of the lumber must necessarily becut out and wasted, while in my invention there is no waste whatever,all the lumber being utilized.

As will also be readily understood, my improved lathing can be made withordinary saws, and thus avoid the expense of special machinery, whichhas been necessary to manu facture the bevel-edged lathing heretoforeprodueed.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As a new article of manufacture, lathing consisting of boards havingreversely-beveled edges and thinner boards interposed between

